Studio BAM

Category: Teaching

  • Mapping Cultures

    Mapping Cultures

    As a workshop tutor for ‘Architecture, Culture, and Environment’, I taught a unique mapping approach representing structure as an outcome of cultural and environmental conditions. The subject integrated architectural history and theory with cultural and environmental concepts. It focused on how these values influenced environmental, social, and architectural advancements, and how value systems and ethical stances affected ecological impact. We used bitmap, vector, and hybrid drawing techniques to understand and express how space was used. After three workshops, students created images reflecting their investigations into allocated architectural precedents.

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  • The Museum of Dangerous Ideas

    The Museum of Dangerous Ideas

    Sydney’s Museums are inherently conservative; both in the way they exhibit artefacts and the architectural devices used to control experience. When you enter any museum you step into a highly curated world where architectural form and artifacts complicity work to modify behaviour. This studio searched for ways to generate more progressive architectural outcomes by first understanding the conservative ideas and tactics that currently delimit the experience museum. Contentious ideas were encouraged and students were required you take a position on how to subvert the museum type. Students mapped museum precedents and visualised them as field conditions of institutional forces and spatial experience. The studio introduced computational theory and techniques, and students learned to rapidly generate and evaluate design outcomes.

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